Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee in the last election, was booed at President Barack Obama's Second Inauguration today in Washington, D.C.

"If things had gone differently in November, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) might have departed the Capitol on Monday as the vice president of the United States. Instead, he faced a chorus of boos as he left the building to attend President Barack Obama's second inauguration ceremony," reports the Huffington Post.

The left-leaning website reports that Ryan attended the Inauguration out of duty. "Ryan announced last week that he would be present for Obama's public swearing in at the Capitol, calling it his 'obligation.'"

Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee.

UPDATE: Here's Ryan's statement on Obama's Inauguration:

"I congratulate President Obama on his inauguration, and I join the country in celebrating this American tradition.

"The president and I were political opponents. We had strong disagreements over the direction of the countryas we still do now. But today, we put those disagreements aside. Today, we remember what we share in common.

"We serve the same country, one that is still in need of repairand is still the freest on earth. We serve alongside men and women from both parties, who govern in good faith and good will. Finally, we serve the same people, who have honored us with their charge.

If we want to know why we lost the last time around, look at the posters here. We have to sort out what’s important and what’s not, what’s the fundamental position of a candidate and what can be changed by popular pressure, but nobody here seems to believe they can change anything or work for anything.

Why should any US candidate for any position care about people who spend their days firing off outraged communications on a closed internet site without ever actually finding a candidate pure enough for them to support or work for? Do they think that gives them some kind of clout in choosing the next candidate?

Let's see, Ryan voted for No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part-D, ethanol subsidies. Yea, principled Conservatives would cast such votes -- Not. Our Republic is in peril. So called leaders like Ryan have no clue to the reality that must be faced to restore our Republic. Ryan is at most a Conservative leaning technocrat. Ryan has no true love of Liberty or limited government as part of his DNA.

If you dont support anybody because youre too pure and cant find a candidate who meets your criteria...then go back to being a Keyboard Kommando, who accomplishes nothing except venting his spleen.

All very well said and kudos for your courage in saying it. As I've always said, if you want someone to govern or legislate precisely as you would, then you need to run yourself. Short of that, we need to stop crucifying our own people for the occassional straying from what we agree with while ignoring the 97% of the rest of the time we're with them and they're with us. The fact is no one is better on fiscal issues and the need to reform the country's entitlement and tax system than Ryan. But unfortunately the country is too stupid to get his vision and voted for the destructive "what's in it for me" parasite vision of the Obamanation.

The purity brigade doesn't understand that sometimes you have to go into strategic retreat to achieve a greater good. Like it or not, Obama had us over a barrel on the fiscal cliff. And with Obama in near total control of the media the blame never would have gone to anyone other than Republicans for going over it. So what then? We hand Congress back to Obama and Pelosi in 2014 so Obama's last 2 years can be a spasm of left wing legislating to up-end what's left of free market capitalism in this country that will never be undone? At least this way we still have a shot at holding the House and getting the Senate so we can mitigate some of the damage Obama is doing and could do if he were in total control. And in the end, we need this debate about tax hikes and lack of spending control to go from the realm of rhetoric and theory and into the realm of practice. Now Obama's got both. Let the nation WITNESS the results---and Obama will have no excuses left.

What do you bet these same carpers are among the 3 million conservatives who sat home drooling on themselves about how they can't vote for a "Mormon and a RINO" rather than voting on election day and now whine that guys like Ryan can't get them everything they want out of an fanatically ideologically-driven president they basically helped re-elect by ignorantly staying home on election day?

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posted on 01/21/2013 3:18:10 PM PST
by MissesBush
(The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)

The American Conservative Union gives Paul Ryan a 92% lifetime rating on conservative voting. Rick Santorum gets an 87% by contrast. How much more ideological purity do you expect? And who could Romney have picked that would have achieved that level of perfection you apparently demand in a candidate?

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posted on 01/21/2013 3:26:28 PM PST
by MissesBush
(The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)

I'm guessing he endorsed Romney because, looking at the field of candidates, made the decision, that many did, that Romney had a good chance of winning. And he did, losing only by a very slim margin. Sadly, the GOP did not get out the vote like the Democrats did.

Too many stayed home in a snit, either because 'their candidate' didn't win the primary, or because Romney was a Mormon, or he just wasn't conservative enough for them. If someone stayed home on election day, I frankly think they should just shut up about anything Obama does over the next four years, because they had the opportunity to defeat him, and chose to sit it out. They're getting exactly what they wanted, no Romney as President.

Exactly. I think Mormonism is a cult akin to Scientology and Romney was certainly a first-class RINO. But I voted for him and even worked for him.

If conservatives had been more united, we could probably have exerted enough pressure to get a better candidate. But since we had so many people who thought Newt Gingrich had been married too many times, others who thought one or another of the candidates wasn’t exactly living the perfect personal life (since ideas didn’t seem to matter for the truly fanatical, only purity of life), we ended up with a Mormon RINO who had been running with his own money since about 2006.

Like Dole, he finally got his turn, and like Dole, he couldn’t turn out the votes.

But what I don’t understand is that why, as you say, with the cliffs before us, conservatives couldn’t understand the strategy. Romney was a horrible candidate, it was conservative weakness and his personal fortune that let him get to that point...but once that has happened, you have to move on.

We’d be a lot better off today if it were Romney being sworn in...instead of a Muslim Marxist America-hating racist.

Well, I AM from Wisconsin, although hes not my rep, I must say Im disappointed in the comments here on Freeper. Paul Ryan is one of the good guys. We conservatives will NEVER find a rep that we agree with 100% of the time.

Is it possible that we might find a rep that we agree with 1% of the time? How about a rep that agrees with us 1% of the time?

Look at these comments! This is what The WON wants us to do. Eat our own. Dont fall for this. The trash, low class folks that show their ignorance and level of education by booing / hollaring at Paul Ryan are the types that are slobbering on the O man today. Write a letter to the editor rather than taking it out on Paul Ryan, please.

Firstly, I have no "own". There is no one in Washington who represents me or wants to represent me. What there is in Washington is tyrants, cowards, traitors, and climbers.

Ill back Paul Ryan any day as he has manners and IS respectful of the office of the president.

Should I show manners and respect to those who would be my tyrant? I am not going to do that, and those who do are weak, and they will be crushed.

And yes, I am sick to my stomach that O was elected, although I figure it was by voter fraud.

You are foolish with that statement. Obama did not manufacture 60 million + votes. Most of those votes are from free people who voted to no longer be free, and the reason they did that is because they have be manufactured to be slaves since the day they were born.

They do not even know what freedom is, what it means or where it comes from, and Paul Ryan is not going to tell them or anyone who comes after them.

Only the free can make more free, otherwise freedom will die with the free.

And yes, I am sick to my stomach that O was elected, although I figure it was by voter fraud.

There was some fraud. But the tired 140% claims only take a few minutes to look up and debunk. Our main problem is the size of the government, all levels but federal is the worst. The democrats have levered that to their advantage. They give 1/2 billion to Planned Parenthood every year and in return/anticipation Planned Parent ran millions of dollars of negative Romney ads. The republicans have been ineffective at stopping this but that's mainly because they are not serious about cutting government either.

Richard Vaguerie nails what we already know.
We must not forget who is most to blame for today’s events: The GOP-E for nominating a cr*p candidate who DIDN’T EVEN WANT TO WIN. Thanks Mittens, Tokyo Rove, Adams Apple Annie, Reince and the rest of you phony RINOS who just don’t have a clue what the word CONSERVATIVE means.

Why do get the sickening feeling that some of you posters are people who stayed home in a sulk on election day. If you didnt vote for Romney/Ryan on November 6, you are unworthly of living in the same country as Paul Ryan.

? LOL...my friends would get a kick out of that "accusation"..I was probably the most obnoxiuos perso that they had ever seen when it came to the election....I had multipule signs at my home and business, I never shut up about the evils of Obama....did I sit home????nope, I went (for the county ) to nursing homes, hospitals, and shut ins to allow them to vote ( we called it the travel board..

And who could Romney have picked that would have achieved that level of perfection you apparently demand in a candidate?

What I found annoying is the seemingly sycophantic belief that Ryan is some wonderful Conservative. I don't care what the ACU says, I believe a principled Conservative would never vote for such Statist programs as NCLB, Medicare Part-D and ethanol susidies.

Ryan is a nice guy and if this was the 80's his conservatism would be on the side of Liberty.

My frustration is with people who actually believe leaders like Ryan can make a difference. We are quickly approaching the time when Congress will truly become irrelevant. Economic reality will have to be faced by all.

Looking ahead we have a very hard left party that is H*llbent on increasing government power to a maddening level. Obama and the evil left will keep filling the government with sadistic people at the EPA and all throughout the bureaucracy. He is well on his way to destroying our Constitutional Republic and free enterprise system.

The world has been in a deflationary state for some time. The moment the Feds can't effectively control interest rates, then things will turn very bad. The Interest payments on the debt will start increasing at an accelerating rate. At that point we will know the end game is certain.

I believe Obama would like to set up things so that at the end of his second term he will have in place the mechanisms to cause the final currency collapse (he hopes after he leaves)

The left's biggest worry is keeping the lid on things through the Marxist's 2nd term.

I believe as the general situation deteriorates that leaders will rise up and present themselves. They most likely will be Governors or some other yet unknown persons.

They will have to be totally non-PC and fearlessly tell the world that the left is pure evil. The left has not faced any blowback for many, many years.

D.C. will never downsize itself. The last hope we have for a peaceful rollback of the Federal leviathan lies with the States. States have the Constitutional power to dissolve and remove all unconstitutional powers now held by the D.C parasite class.

Unfortunately, the only time that power will be recognized and appreciated is at the moment the Federal government becomes most dangerous -- at the point of imminent collapse. There will be a small window of time to allow a peaceful solution.

There is no such person as the perfect conservative. You’re living in fantasy land. Even Reagan gave in to liberal policies in having raised taxes and having allowed amnesty. He also allowed large deficits. Don’t get me wrong, I think Reagan was an incredible man and an incredible president, but he had to bend on occassion too. I don’t think you’d deny Reagan was a principled conservative since on balance he was. Paul Ryan too is by far conservative, a few stray votes not withstanding. I judge a conservative on the vast predominance of their positions, not a few errant votes.

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posted on 01/22/2013 10:26:50 AM PST
by MissesBush
(The Fourth Estate has Become a Fifth Column)

There is no such person as the perfect conservative. Youre living in fantasy land.

fantasy land? Such a dumb response. I never ever implied I was looking for a "perfect" Conservative. None will ever exist.

The main thrust of my arguments are against those who seem to believe that the likes of Ryan will make a difference. They all are utterly irrelevant. The power and momentum of the left in D.C. is currently unstoppable.

Economic reality will eventually force the States to finally take the initiative to save our Republic. The Federal leviathan will be rolled back one way or another.

Again, it is my belief that no true Conservative would ever cast a vote for Medicare Part-D, and No Child Left behind. These were not errant votes.

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